Recounts the development of the modern department store in late nineteenth-century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes and class relations taking place at the end of the century. Octave Mouret, the store's owner-manager, masterfully exploits the desires of his female customers. In his private life as much as in business...

Third grader Judy Moody is in a first day of school bad mood until she gets an assignment to create a collage all about herself and begins creating her masterpiece, the Me collage.

Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson learns he is a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea. His mother sends him to a summer camp for demigods where he and his new friends set out on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.

"La noble demeure du comte de Mélamare a été le théâtre de plusieurs enlèvements. Les victimes ? Une actrice et un mannequin. La comtesse et son frère sont-ils coupables ? Difficile à croire. Arsène Lupin prend l'affaire en main. Au milieu de tous ces drames, le célèbre cambrioleur va devoir agir en véritable gentleman."--Page 4 of cover. The noble residence of the Count of Mélamare was the scene of several kidnappings. The victims?...